Conventional speed enforcement has its limitations. You can only pull over one vehicle at a time. This method is unproductive, slow and expensive from the government’s point of view.
With the rapid development of technology, clever ways have been developed to make the process speedier.
So the government in its great ‘wisdom’ decided it wasn’t collecting enough money with the old system.
There are just too many factors: First, they have to hire the cop to pull you over. This also means the use of a police vehicle which also costs money. Next, the traffic stop itself is a dangerous situation for the officer and potentially other drivers or pedestrians. Third, after it’s all said and done, the driver may still end up driving away without a ticket (if the officer decides to just give a warning).
And last, in the time it took the officer to pull you over and write a ticket, many more people go speeding by, so there was money lost from not pulling them over!
Now, introducing the photo radar. It is the latest tactic on the governments part to make money. Oh, in the name of safety of course. In just a few minutes a photo radar can catch many cars speeding on a single road.
With photo radar also known as traffic cameras, speeding tickets are simply mailed to the offender. Talk about customer service!
Since it was deployed photo radar has increased revenue for municipalities that employ it, maximized enforcement resources for other duties, and increased conviction rates in traffic court. Also drivers insurance rates went up.
Currently only 20 states or so use the photo radar for speeding detection, but it is on the rise.
However, the popularity of photo radar is growing by leaps and bounds.
More and more cities across the nation are beginning to catch on to the money making potential that photo radar has. Its relative simplicity and monetary benefits makes photo radar a good choice for many cities.
In areas that are financially strapped, photo radar gives them an immediate answer to their money misery.
Think about it: Within minutes, photo radar can clock dozens of speeding vehicles — something that would have taken about 10 real cops to accomplish with traditional speed enforcement!
How does a photo radar work you may ask? Think of it as a radar gun and a high quality camera rolled up into one. It gets programmed to take a photo of your license plate at a certain speed.
For instance say the speed limit of a particular road is set at 45 mph, the photo radar can be set to activate if it detects a speed over 50 mph.
So when the photo radar unit detects a car passing it at a speed over the predetermined speed it will take a picture of your plate. This picture is stored and the process keeps going on 24/7. Courtesy of big brother, bundreds of drivers can be ticketed this way.
On the following day the photo radar pictures will be accessed and gone through by several people.
What the examiners are looking for is the clarity of the picture and if the plate number can be read.
Once the legible pictures from the photo radar have been determined and the license plate numbers ran through the bureau of motor vehicles database, if the car is registered to say, a female, and there is a female driving the vehicle, BINGO, a speeding ticket will be on its way to the registered owners address.
This process is repeated with the next picture and so on until all available photos have been examined. Photo radar enforcement is on the rise, hopefully this article will give you a heads up about it.
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